“I feel bad about those,” Anthony Pasquince, 42, of Brooklyn, allegedly told cops about a string of burglaries.STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A stray fingerprint belonging to a career crook helped police solve a string of break-ins on the borough’s South Shore last month.

Police say Anthony Pasquince, 42, of Brooklyn, hit three houses between Dec. 4 and Dec. 22, in each case prying open a front or side window so he could get inside and take the homeowners’ jewelry boxes.

Pasquince was already behind bars, held on $75,000 bail on Rikers Island in connection with a burglary in Queens, when detectives from Staten Island caught up with him.

He has been linked to break-ins on the 400 block of Ashland Avenue and the 200 block of Albourne Avenue in Prince’s Bay, and on Alexander Avenue in Annadale, according to court papers.

Pasquince admitted to the break-ins when questioned by investigators, a law enforcement source said.

“I feel bad about those,” he told police, according to the source. “I went to a house where there was a dog, and I left in a hurry.”

Police initially arrested Pasquince in Brooklyn on Dec. 29, charging him with misdemeanor drug possession, public records show. A day later, authorities charged him in connection with a Nov. 20 burglary in Queens.

The Staten Island arrest came on Tuesday — Pasquince faces charges of second-degree burglary, fourth-degree grand larceny and fourth-degree criminal mischief, according to William J. Smith, a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.

Pasquince, who also goes by the first name of Michael, served two sentences in state prison for attempted robbery convictions dating back to the 1990s, public records show. He was last released from prison in 2004, those records show.